Paris, 23 September 2009 - The Crédit Agricole Mutuel d'Aquitaine and Centre-Loire Regional Banks have announced that they are looking into buying back all of their outstanding cooperative investment certificates (CCIs) and have asked for listing of their CCI certificates to be suspended until a press release is published setting out the terms of the deal. A further 13 Regional Banks have issued CCIs* out of a total of 39 Crédit Agricole Regional Banks. They state that they do not intend to pursue any similar programmes in the next few years.